Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-02-17

GENERAL.
PARSELL moved his amendment to the
the address to the throne in the British
House of Commons on the 9TH.
THE miners of Northumberland, Eng,
have voted s, 25S to 1 $50 to strike against
reduction of wages.
TIE Belgian Government has introduced
bill in the Chamber of Deputies for extra
budget appropriations amounting to 49,
600 600 francs of which Is, 0uO, 900 francs are
asked for pressing military measures
AT Stettin, Germany, recently several
socialists received bayonet wounds on being
dispersed by the military.
THE Grand Vizier, NJ Zankoff and NJ.
Valcovitch, the Bulgarian agent had
conference at Constantinople recently.
1t was agreed that the Bulgarian regency
should be reconstructed and the ZankoR
party admitted
THE Depretis Ministry, of Italy, resigned
on the Sth.
AN official dispatch from Massowah an
nounces that in the recent encounter with
the Abyssinians the Italians had twenty
three officers and 407 men killed, and one
officer and eighty-one men wounded
CHANCELLOR of the Exchequer Goschen
has been elected to the British Parliament
from St Georges, Hanover Square
A COMPANY has been formed in Belgium
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Africa, and to settle that territory
Two bombs were thrown against the po-
lice headquarters at Lyons, France, on the
9th. a bomb was also thrown against the
police station at ST. Etienne, thirty-three
miles southwest of Lyons, the same day,
injuring three officers No great harm was
done at Lyons.
THE committee of the French Chamber of
Deputies on the abrogation of the concordat
q a I a
ciple of separation of the church and state.
LORD DUNRAvEN has resigned as Under
Colonial Secretary of Great britain.
THE Catholic Bishop of Lemburg, Ger
many, has forbidden the clergy of his
diocese to oppose the Septennate bill.
A NEW Catholic paper is about to appear
in Berlin. 1t will be the organ of that sec
ton of the Center party which supports the
Government.
HERR DIDELoN, manager of the Sham
rock mine at Dartmund, and Leopold Col
stein, chief of a banking firm at DantZic,
Germany, have committed suicide. The
latter was insolvent.
THE Vienna press considers the resigna-
ton of Count de Robilant, Italian Foreign
Minister, bad augury for the preserva-
ton of European peace His retirement,
the papers say, will be especially welcome
to Russia, where Italian defeat at Masso-
wah is recognized as being partly the work
of Russian assistance to the Abyssinians.
THE Buda-Pesther Journal urges Austria
to attack Russia before the latter has COM
pleted her preparations on the lower Dan
ube. It says: "War is inevitable and it is
better to begin fighting before the Balkan
States have been Russianized. Austria
would thus secure an alliance with Servia
and Bulgaria, giving her 100000 additional
troops.'
1T is reported that the Cunarders Beta
and Alpha have been purchased by the Do
minion Government for service IN protect
ing the fisheries.
THE Queensland expedition which went
to New Guinea to ayenge the murder by
natives last October at Johannes of Captain
Craig and two sailors and six Malays of the
ship Emily has returned entirely success
full. The native chief, responsible for the
murder, was caught and beheaded, and the
village where he and his accomplices
lived was burned.
A of glass workers at St. Helens,
England, the other day attacked with stones
Swedish workmen, injuring several Of
them. The police were powerless.
THE Mohammedans will celebrate the
Queens jubilee in their mosques through
out India, with special prayers for the sta
bility and welfare of the Empire
TRADERS from the interior of Africa re-
port that the explorer, DIR. Holub and his
wife, and the entire party accompanying
him, have been massacred by natives.
THE volcano of Mauna LOa in the Sand
witch Islands was in eruption recently. The
eruptions were followed by earthquakes.
FURTHER damage was reported on the
10th from the high waters prevailing in
Michigan, New York and Pennsylvania.
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